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Security is being stepped up in Turkey after a bomb attack left four dead days before a Nato summit of world leaders. Police are said to be carrying out random checks in shopping centres, bus and train stations ahead of the talks. The White House has said the attacks will not affect the schedule of US President George W Bush, who is among 50 leaders due to attend on Monday. Istanbul's governor has identified the bomber, who died, as a 29-year-old woman with links to a hard-left group. Istanbul governor Muammer Guler said the bomb on the bus was being carried by Semiran Polat, 29, from the mainly Kurdish south-eastern province of Tunceli. He said she was understood to have been wanted for activities within an "illegal leftist organisation". "We know this organisation," he said. "We will make a statement once we get confirmation of our investigation."
| "Hand me the #3 truncheon, please." |
The device is believed to have exploded at the wrong time in the wrong place.
| It went off on Ms. Polat's lap. |
"It is understood that the target was neither the bus not the passengers aboard," Mr Guler said. Turkish police have arrested three suspects, two men and a woman, who were believed to have been on board the bus when the explosion occurred, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported.
| On their way to plant the bomb, most likely. |
The device in Ankara exploded near the hotel where Mr Bush is due to stay on Saturday. Two people were injured. A small radical Marxist group, MLFP-FESK, later said they placed a parcel bomb outside the Hilton Hotel, private NTV television reported. No-one has admitted responsibility for the Istanbul attack.
| Maybe cuz they got blown up first? |
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